Beyond that, if you sign up up for the OnLive Desktop Plus service for $4.99 a month, you'll also get priority access to OnLive's incredible gigabit internet speeds over the cloud, regardless of your home Wi-Fi speed.

Recent tests, through a flash-enabled Internet Explorer 9 browser have clocked downloads at around 650Mbps.

This dramatically increases page-load times cuts out the time factor when downloading large email attachments or when transferring large files through services like Dropbox, which is also compatible with OnLive Desktop.

The company has already been a huge benefit to Android tablets in the past few months with the launch of the OnLive gaming app, bringing console-quality games to high-end Android tablets, playable completely over the cloud.